A$AP Rocky has explained the comments he made about black lives back in 2015 on The Breakfast Club in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement resurgence. He expressed that he believes the whole interview was blown out of proportion when he sat down with Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God during the recent interview on Power 105.1.
In the original interview, Billboard reported him as saying, “They’re not forcing me to do sh*t. I’m just gonna stay black and die. Why, because I’m black? So every time something happens because I’m black I gotta stand up? What the f**k am I, Al Sharpton now? I’m A$AP Rocky. I did not sign up to be no political activist.”
In his recent interview with The Breakfast Club, he turned around and clarified these comments, saying, “I feel terrible as a black man, as an American. It’s crazy. This Donald Trump sh*t… I just don’t understand how they keep saying a dark-skinned n***a don’t like black people.”
He further said, “And it’s because you do these interviews with European reporters, journalists who want to make a name for themselves and they take the sh*t out of context. Most people who read that interview only only read that section based off of what was floating around in the blogs. I feel like, for the most part, people didn’t really dissect that interview. You could see that’s not my context.”
FIRST YALH SAY IM ILLUMINATI ,THEN IM GAY , THEN SAY I DONT LIKE DARKSKINED CHICKS IN RED LIPSTICK, NOW IM DUMB N DONT CARE ABOUT BLACKS
— LORD FLACKO JODYE II (@asvpxrocky) July 15, 2016
In other A$AP Rocky news, back in February, his A$AP Mob began featuring a Wavy Wednesdays series, which consisted of free streams of new music by members of his Harlem hip-hop collective. On the stream released the week of Feb. 25, he enlisted Migos on his new “Trap Anthem” as well as freestyling over “When I’m Small,” released by Phantogram.
“Trap Anthem” was trap music mixed with the stylings of the Atlanta-based trio Migos with Ferg, who hails from Harlem. His A$AP Mob group also released a music video for their song “Big Timers,” which was a collaboration with Marty Baller that was released this past December. Manne Fresh of Big Tymers also made a cameo appearance in the video.
